Saving Private Ryan: virtue and valour against ‘toxic masculinity’

Florence Nightingale: a pioneer of hand washing and hygiene for health

If doctors can’t care for all the coronavirus victims, what happens then?

Coronavirus reading: Courage, betrayal and survival in wartime Eastern Europe

Now more than ever, leaders and governments need a moral compass

Knowledge, power and obsession

Thank God for politicians! The good ones, that is

Recovering true friendship

Pluralism and its discontents

Coronavirus reading: Lockdown is paradise for introverts

In Italy, the singing has stopped

Coronavirus reading: ‘The Demon in Democracy’

Bad reasoning about hard choices

Coronavirus reading: a fresh look at World War II

The twisted optimism of the miserabilists

Coronavirus pandemic is a disaster for the world, but a few good things might emerge from it

Coronavirus reading: the mystery of the murder mystery’s appeal

Withdrawing artificial hydration and nutrition can be ethically complex

New Zealand redefines abortion as healthcare – except for babies born alive after ‘the procedure’

Coronavirus reading: ‘In spite of everything, say Yes to life’

Rediscovering a sense of community

Hiding in plain sight: foiling face-recognition technology

The Berlin Wall and why Bernie Sanders will never be President

Why so many epidemics originate in Asia and Africa – and why we can expect more

Lessons from a global healthquake

Abortion: no right to choose for nurses, no choice for mothers

A Nazi drug’s US resurgence: How meth is making a disturbing reappearance

‘All will be well’? Only if the world acts to stop COVID

After ‘effective altruism’

International Women’s Day: marking the unremarkable woman – or disappearing her?

Panic in the supermarket

Is Elizabeth Warren a closet Pro-lifer? Did that do her campaign in?

Misleading myths of feminism ignore the human heart

After Weinstein, the rules of intimacy come full circle

Dry ice and indoor pools don’t mix

The long autumn of our content

Is the coronavirus epidemic increasing forced organ harvesting in China?

Why Louisiana’s abortion clinic bill protects women’s health

Ain’t no AI in heaven

‘Trust me, I’m a landlord’

Whither populism?

Count your blessings. If you catch coronavirus, you still missed out on bubonic plague

Divided loyalties: the 737 Max warning light glitch

The fall of a spiritual giant

Twitter piles on Richard Dawkins over eugenics tweet

How vulnerable is Xi Jinping over coronavirus?

The hidden scourge of modern slavery

In defence of Peter Singer

Ireland is moving inexorably to the Left

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